In a cave in eastern China, an exceptional fossil has been uncovered: that of a prehistoric cat so small it could have fit in the palm of a hand. This rare discovery opens a new window into the ...

Paleontologists have unearthed the 30,000-year-old fossilized remains of what may be the smallest cat ever known to have existed. The fossilized lower jaw fragment was unearthed within the Hualongdong ...

When you think of extinct animals, you might go to a saber-toothed cat, or the infamous dodo. But there are, unfortunately, a ...

ATU researchers discovered the 5,500-year-old wildcat in a cave in Clare, marking a breakthrough in understanding Ireland’s ...

Scientists placed the extinct species, which may date back more than 300,000 years, in the same genus as modern leopard cats in Asia Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent A baby rusty-spotted cat, born ...

Scientists found a cat with a dead mole rat and rediscovered a rodent considered extinct and not seen in the country for 120 years. Google Street View May 2023 ...

The earliest directly dated wildcat (Felis silvestris) ever found in Ireland has been identified, confirming the species lived on the island more than 5,500 years ago. The discovery, by Dr Marion Dowd ...